25 Years of Transformative Impact

Transforming power relations and challenging discrimination since 2000. Integrated Disabled Women Activities champions the rights of women and girls with disabilities across Uganda.

Integrated Disabled Women Activities (IDIWA) is an indigenous non-governmental organization established in 2000, and committed to transforming power relations through strengthening women and girls with disabilities and their formations to challenge the patriarchal system and disability-based discrimination that creates a perceived acceptable imbalance and inequality in a society.

In character, we are proactive and responsive, creative, grounded, consistent, and reliable, and a part of the ecosystem of women’s rights, feminist, and disability rights movements in Uganda and Africa. IDIWA operates nationally, with strategic presence in Eastern Uganda.

This strategy aims to expand the organization’s reach and impact, ensuring a broader and deeper presence nationwide.

Our Core Values

Team Work

Collaborative approach strengthening communities and building lasting partnerships across Uganda

Unity in Diversity

Celebrating differences while building bridges across communities and disability experiences.

Transparency & Accountability

Open governance ensuring trust and responsible stewardship of resources and relationships.

Honesty

Authentic communication fostering genuine relationships and sustainable change.

Non-discrimination

Equal opportunities and respect for all, challenging systemic barriers and prejudice.

Reaching Across Uganda

101,000 Lives Transformed

Our nationwide impact spans diverse communities, with strategic focus in Eastern Uganda expanding our reach across the country.

From urban centers to rural villages, IDIWA’s presence grows stronger each year, creating ripple effects of positive change.

Women empowered with rights and resources

Men engaged as allies and advocates

Persons with disabilities directly supported

Community members reached through programs

Gender & Human Rights

Legal Framework Transformation

Influenced enactment of 5 district ordinances on education, reproductive health, employment, and gender-based violence4creating lasting policy change.

Justice & Accountability

Successfully prosecuted 250 GBV cases while training 500 paralegals as first responders in communities nationwide.

Movement Building

Spearheaded formation of Busoga GBV and Disability Rights Network, uniting 29 groups to confront violence against women and girls.

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